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bog witch / culture spud / salty spice she/her Artistic Projects Manager at @dublinfringe 💜 🧂 📙 🔮 🏳️‍🌈 ☕ 💜

[cmat @cmatbaby]

so crazy to be in New York City, seeing just truckloads and truckloads of a book called Intermezzo fly off the shelves, which is set in LEITRIM . every time i see a woman reading it in a cafe, near a dog with a very expensive haircut, i wonder is she romanticising Leitrim

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

From Gaza, under the sounds of bombing, inside our small tent, my children Imad and Adam, and I want to tell you: don't forget us 💔 and don't leave us alone in this war...

[Dublin Theatre Festival @DubTheatreFest]

🚨 Applications now open🚨

For ages 18-25, Catapult is a new opportunity for young theatre goers to attend a range of shows free of charge, followed by post-show discussions with participants.

🔗 https://t.co/OMHHjC2nxH

[Li ッ @poppyblfour]

"dont you get tired of being alone?"

me being alone:

[Dublin Theatre Festival @DubTheatreFest]

We are hiring! We're looking for a Show Programmes Editor to join our team for the upcoming 2024 festival.

📅Apply by 9 July
Link in bio.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This sentence should bring shame to the world.

[Seonshine @redbraceslawl]

If anyone is in #letterkenny this Saturday (tomorrow) and looking a BIG GORGEOUS THEATRE EVENING- come join us! (there's food- and a beautiful queer coming of age story- Scaredy Fat)

https://t.co/YFvU2Aj1Ds

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Tired of watching photos and videos from Gaza?

Well I am tired of taking these photos and videos.

[Float @floattheplay]

Just over a week to go! Get your tickets at the link below:

[iris♥️ @lanamyerist]

Donation links for Congo:

— a thread

[Float @floattheplay]

🫧THE MAC, BELFAST🫧

After two sold-out shows last year, Float is returning to the MAC for 3 nights in June! Get your tickets now to catch Float back at home before it heads to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August…

See you there (again?) 🫧

🎟️ https://t.co/nhWdLMBDPi

[Beta Festival @BetaFest_IRL]

Very excited to be a part of @STARTSEU #STARTS4WaterII project with @DiscussAI
20 residency opportunities across Europe & 3 hosted in Ireland in @DublinPortCo @portofgalway & @BelfastHarbour

https://t.co/x4Hu91ehk9

#OpenCall #ArtAndTechnology #Sustainability #WaterManagement

[Dublin City Council Culture Company @DCCCultureCo]

We're inviting people to join our Advisory Group🧠

If you're invested in Dublin Culture and want to help us create meaningful experiences with people and communities across Dublin, go to our website to find out more and express your interest!

https://t.co/6n2yGNmAU4

[Ploughshares is on Bluesky @pshares]

Our annual Emerging Writer’s Contest, this year judged by Dantiel W. Moniz, Augusten Burroughs, and Porsha Olayiwola, is an amazing opportunity for those looking to make their mark in the literary world. Submit your writing today! https://t.co/ctSaZUuW8Our annual Emerging Writer’s Contest, this year judged by Dantiel W. Moniz, Augusten Burroughs, and Porsha Olayiwola, is an amazing opportunity for those looking to make their mark in the literary world. Submit your writing today! https://t.co/ctSaZUuW8Our annual Emerging Writer’s Contest, this year judged by Dantiel W. Moniz, Augusten Burroughs, and Porsha Olayiwola, is an amazing opportunity for those looking to make their mark in the literary world. Submit your writing today! https://t.co/ctSaZUuW8k

[Seonshine @redbraceslawl]

What would artists need/ want from a scratch night?

[VAULT @wearevault_]

VAULT is closing and we're having a Storage Sale! Our unit houses a range of equipment, tech & furniture that's used for venues, catering, staging, decor and operations at #VAULTFestival. We'd love it to go to a good home, open to all offers! SEE THE LIST: https://t.co/m6guLt8kFw

[Project Arts Centre @projectarts]

✨📣 Exciting News! Introducing our newly appointed Resident Project Artists: Jessie Thompson and Murmuration!

👀Stay tuned as we will give a close-up into their inspiring work, and upcoming projects in the weeks ahead.

Learn more about Project Artists: https://t.co/eOF46KBL4W

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 AD.

Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent, as was the intimate ambience.

The main Busáras structure took six years to build, construction starting in 1947 and finishing in 1953, at a then stratospheric cost over £1 million. And it was controversial from the start. This modern piece of architecture was paradoxically dated looking from the get-go. The Eblana Theatre itself opened on the 17th of September 1959. For the first two years, the vaguely depressing theatre entertained passengers until their buses came, showing newsreel clips on a cinema screen.

Thespian and director Phyllis Ryan`s (1920 –2011) Gemini Productions drama company took over the lease and showcased the idiosyncratic little space during the Dublin Theatre Festival. This prestigious, independent alternative to the Abbey Theatre championed playwrights like John B. Keane Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. But even this veneer of artistic glamour did little to elevate the Eblana.

One constant source of scorn against the little space was its placement close to the large seedy bus station public toilets. Anecdotes abound of intoxicated travellers strolling into the middle of a play, seeking a place to take a leak before their bus arrived. This led to the witty insult that Busáras had "The only public toilet in Dublin with its own theatre."

After Gemini productions parted ways the Andrew's Lane Theatre briefly took over, then the Northside Theatre Company. Eblana`s days were numbered , and it closed in 1995. There was much talk of refurbishment and relaunch as the new home of the Fry Model Railway in 2012. However, the estimated millions in funding never manifested.

The most recent plan was converting the unique space in to a training centre for Bus Éireann staff, with Dublin City Council granting planning permission.This is earmarked to happen when Bus Éireann relocates its headquarters from Broadstone to the Busáras site.

Until then, though, the errie theatre has become a bizarre time capsule. Its tattered seats, creaking floorboards, and peeling posters gently dilapidating in the subterranean Dublin air. The abandoned auditorium feels like a spectral audience and cast has just stepped out a moment ago, as if it could very easily screen horror movies to an assembly of ghosts at night after the rest of Busáras has shut up shop and gone home.

[Dublin Fringe Festival @dublinfringe]

Callout: Words Upside Down

International Literature Festival Dublin are looking for event ideas that embrace curiosity and wonder, spark conversation or new ways of listening, & break away from traditional literary event format.

Find out more & submit:
https://t.co/krolD8nj1g

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

It’s actually crazy that the worst could be yet to come.

Keep praying. Keep protesting. Keep the pressure. We can’t get tired now.